The Ghost of Miller's Bridge

In 1973, a boy vanished in rural Kentucky. His backpack, the only clue,

lay neatly by Miller's Bridge. Locals whispered the bridge was cursed. Phantom footsteps often

echoed on empty planks. Sometimes, a faint, ghostly child's humming

drifted from its weathered boards. A week later, his heartbroken mother swore she saw

him on the bridge at dusk. As she ran, he turned, revealing an unnaturally

wide, chilling smile. Then, he stepped backward into the luminescent

creek, vanishing without a splash. Every autumn since, a child's silhouette

waits at Miller's Bridge center at twilight. Cross without acknowledging him,